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by adammil 4568 days ago
It happens outside government too. It happens anytime your higher-level boss tells you: "Yes, I'm on board! You're right, a system like that would help us tremendously in several ways! Please estimate the costs for it so I can get us the money in our budget meeting next month." Happens all the time in enterprise businesses and the newer methodologies are extremely difficult to use in this sort of situation. In this case, I need some specs up front, create dev estimates, all to ultimately deliver a rough dollar amount or sometimes a "not to exceed" number for my boss...